That the Library of Congress has now chosen to be more selective about its work feels perceptive, and germane to our moment.
I take to heart what Warren Buffett contends of such wealthy inheritors who "might feel themselves perceptive in observing the debilitating effects of food stamps for the poor but would fail to observe that they themselves are the beneficiaries of an almost boundless lifetime supply of privately-funded food stamps bestowed upon them at birth".
[Don't worry, Hills. We're on it. We've just googled David Miliband, and he has a much tighter butt than David Cameron.] I always felt David Miliband was extremely perceptive, and boy did he make my legs go wobbly!
I gave the script to a psychologist friend who made a very perceptive observation: he felt that as a Hollywood stuntman, Jason Colson had a risk-taking personality and that trait would permeate his lifestyle.
Table 6 Verbs that realize the Process in 'mental' clauses in students' writing 1st 5th 10th perceptive discover, feel, meet, see, feel, find, cognitive be sure, know, learn, remember, tolerate, understand, be sure, focus on, know, learn, read, remember, study, think, understand expect, be sure, desiderative want, wish hope, wish emotive enjoy, like, take pleasure in.
"Sean Penn called me directly and said De Niro wanted to do it," said Mr. Addica, adding that he felt the stop-and-start process was worth it because, in the end, it meant landing the gentle, perceptive Mr. Forster.
Observer readers are a particularly perceptive group and they have veered from the outraged to the heartbreaking, but it has always felt like a rich dialogue and I apologise for the many that I never answered.
I appreciated the perceptive review of my book "Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism" (Nov. 10), yet I felt compelled to offer one important factual correction.
These early stories, clever and perceptive as they were, did little more than display the inner thoughts of white middle-class characters trapped in a world about which they felt guilty, but that they did not understand.
I feel I wasn't very perceptive".
But although the piece is quietly perceptive, I still feel it's an inward-looking play about inward-looking people.
